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Marcone the Informant

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Con:

--- Quote from: Snark Knight on October 24, 2021, 03:19:08 PM ---He might. But his influence through plain corruption is pretty vast.

That Goodman Grey story where Grey's secretary takes out a bunch of VIP's who'd been clients of the child brothel Marcone wanted an example made of ... something like a dozen of them were under Marcone's thumb, and he treats losing them as just a moderate inconvenience.

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I mean tbf Marcone seems to view most net losses as just mildly inconvenient. The hitman thug who betrayed him in Storm Front, burning down the Varsity, The expense and effort of killing the Fomor, the Weregild and loss of a defensive location.

Marcone views most any loss as 'oh well' with the retribution the same as most people view mildly annoying paperwork as a result of their job.

b4utoo:
Well there's a flip side to that. Are you sure that Marcone sees it as losses. I think Marco and has so many of the same thing happening just different versions of it. When one thing doesn't work out he sees it as a learning experience. And sees how to expand upon that later. In a way you might see it as a positive when things burn down crash down explode whatever to shows him a new way to improve

Con:
True.

He hired Gard when Dresden repeatedly turned him down, and most fan theories have him accepting Namshiels coin after the Fomor incident.

Mostly because he almost lost Hendricks and his life, him not using Namshiels in that situation was recklessly putting himself and a useful subordinate or two in peril he couldn't recover from easily.

Second Aristh:

--- Quote from: Con on October 24, 2021, 10:21:47 PM ---True.

He hired Gard when Dresden repeatedly turned him down, and most fan theories have him accepting Namshiels coin after the Fomor incident.

Mostly because he almost lost Hendricks and his life, him not using Namshiels in that situation was recklessly putting himself and a useful subordinate or two in peril he couldn't recover from easily.

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I think it was roughly after he returned from the Vatican in GS that he took up Namshiel.  That aligns with Marcone doing his homework before jumping into something dangerous.  Even Hand was before Changes, though granted, Even Hand could have convinced Marcone to start looking for more personal power to directly call upon.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: Con on October 24, 2021, 10:08:36 PM ---I mean tbf Marcone seems to view most net losses as just mildly inconvenient.

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Sure, I'm just saying the extent of his corruption network in-story is probably a lot bigger than any parallels in real-world organized crime subversion of the US judicial and political system. I don't think we can draw conclusions that he's got too much pull for it not to indicate a deal, because his corruption influence is essentially however wide it needs to be for narrative convenience.

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